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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

We've been having some fast & furious fall color this year. The Annual Autumn Leaf Show hasn't been nearly as spectacular as in previous years, and it also started early. This may be due in part to the lack of rain we've had over the past months. Several thunderstorms have sneaked right by us, but the blustery days have been sending giant bursts of yellow leaves flying around the sky and flittering to the ground. The rain is missed, but these showstopping showers are a welcome distraction.

We had a hot, dry summer here in Georgia, but I'm not sure leaf color's been affected. Of course, it may be that leaf season's just getting started. The sweet gum trees are already turning red, yellow, and purple. I guess we'll see in another few weeks how the leaf show turns out. First frost should be here Friday night!

This is fun - I click on and you are HERE! We aren't getting much color (well brown IS a color isn't it) here in North Texas - cooler winds blowing now and we are still in severe drought so just praying for trees to all survive. Enjoy seeing your countryside to represent autumn for the rest of us!

i love sheep. and autumn. and spring. and nature. and I would love to live like you do. we are planning to do so next year, but nobody knows yet and this is a sweet secret for us. thank you so much for sharing the pics with us, it makes me feel like beeing there, too! don't forget to tell about the llama name... bäh, bäh, bääääh. bella

Frost here last night! Yikes. I am not ready. I actually like everything about winter except the ice. Cause I'm a klutz, and I fall down.

Last year, I slipped on a big patch of black ice on a sidewalk downtown, on the way to work, in the morning before dawn. It was so slippery, that I couldn't get my footing to get up. Kept slipping, and falling again. I was wearing a huge big, long coat, and carrying a bag full of files, and my lunch and stuff. I was like a bug on its back.

Once I mentally pictured what I looked like, I started laughing, and couldn't stop. Naturally this did not help with the getting up. Two strangers tried to help me and fell down, too. They both started laughing, and the one guy spilled his take-out coffee, all over the other one, and me. It took us nearly 15 minutes to get all three of us up, and onto safer ground.

I walked the 2 more blocks to work covered with ice and coffee, giggling weakly, and headed for the bathroom, to clean up. OK, it was amusing and all that, but I'm just not ready yet.

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